What a waste

It all looks like pita pieces. Too short, too long, crotches etc.....

I'd be back with a pickup and a trailer if I could....

I hate seeing all that waste...

So what are they going to do with it, just let it rot there?

PA. Woodsman said:

So what are they going to do with it, just let it rot there?

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Don't know about that pile, but I can tell you around my neck of the woods Piles much larger than that get left to rot all the time .....all i see are BTU's......everyone else sees garbage, I dont get it....

What a shame. That looks like a lot of btu's.

I don't mind small pieces, I sometimes have a 5 gallon bucket with them, not as convenient but I can't see wasting it.

Fuel is fuel ... my fuel doesn't have to look pretty to keep me warm. Always have said that it's not how pretty your stacks are or hoe pretty your wood looks ... it's about how dry the wood is ... that's what keeps you warm.

Sure - I love straight uniform splits, but at a certain point, the ugly stuff just gets reduced to a size that fits in the stove. No matter how weird the shape. I call it "splitting by burning". They usually get stacked on the top and burned first.

Are those blocks hardwood? If so I would be picking through those like a hungry man in a blueberry patch.

I had some pieces like that that I burned earlier in the season, small little chunks, uglies whatever you want to call them, and I actually enjoyed doing it! We had talked on here awhile ago about how to store them, and there were really nice designs that fellas made using pallets to build a "holding crib" to put them in. If you get access to that pile and get the okay to take wood from it in the future, it might be worthwhile building one of them if there is going to be a steady supply of the little pieces. Like someone said earlier, they usually get put on top of the piles and burned first, but if I knew that I would have steady access to them I'd build a holding crib.

Like the others said "it all burns" and keeps you warm, so why not use them?

I'd be all over that!

all the concrete and dirt would be hell on a chain though.

bobdog2o02 said:

all the concrete and dirt would be hell on a chain though.

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Good point. But all those blocks...

Edit: that looks like sawdust they're sitting in...

I think I could get some great burns with those smaller rectangular and cube pieces, and I see some pretty decent larger pieces in there too. You need some sort of bin or box to store the cut pieces. If you have a dry place to store them, cardboard boxes might work well.

I would be happy to pick up some of that.

firefighterjake said:

Fuel is fuel ... my fuel doesn't have to look pretty to keep me warm.

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I used to think that way, but having really struggled to get 3 years ahead with my burn rate has changed my mind on this. When I started leaving all crotches, shorts, and gnarly stuff in the woods, production rate went way up. Stacking is also neater, faster, and more stable, when every split is 20" long and straight as a pin.